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Old 03-30-2005, 02:16 PM
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Default Master Cylinder Hole

I am in the process of doing A4 to T56 swap. I have the pedals completely in and now it is time to drill the holes for the ubolt and the hole for the master.

If I look inside the engine bay it looks like there is a circle part about a little over an inch in diameter where it appears that I am to drill with the hole saw.

I havent seen or read anything anywhere about this little circle plate. It looks like it pops out for the master cylinder. I havent seen anyone mention it....

Any1 know what I am talking about?

Do I still drill or what??? Looks like this part is meant to be popped out in order to put a master cyl in its place...

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what I did was bolt up the pedals and then I traced arount the spot where the master cylinder slides by the pedals and used a jig saw to cut the hold out. I started out small and got bigger to get the best fit.
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You need to look at it from the interior, I sent my my phone number through a PM call if you want me to explain it to you
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Got your PM, I could snap a picture tonight of my firewall if you want (from the cabin side). Are there holes on either side of that larger one for the U-bolt clamp to slip through?
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i also did it from the interior.. if i can find the pictures i snapped of it while doing the swap. ill try to post them up soon for u..
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Nevermind guys...I got it. What I did is drilled the holes for the ubolt, easy.

Then used a peice of thin cardboard and cut out a 1-3/4" hole with the hole saw in the cardboard. Then I put the cardboard peice over the master cylinder and marked where the bolts go.

I then took the cardboard peice and put it up against the firewall, lined it up, and used the hole saw to drill the hole. It worked perfect!

I will have a full set of pics to put up once I am done with the entire install...
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I just put up pics in the A4 to M6 sticky thread too (from my swap in 2002). No captions yet.

A4 to M6 swap pics

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Congrats on the swap. I finished mine 2 weeks ago. I drilled a 2" hole and found out that's a little too big. Now I got about 1/2" gap above the MC and firewall.

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